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something that really annoyed me in the Christmas episode

posted 12 years ago by ricky_says_hi
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you know how Carrie brings a friend over for dinner and he steals their presents to give to the homeless and the family are completely okay with it by the end? did anyone else find that a bit twisted? i mean it seems like the message is if someone invites you into their house it's completely fine to steal their belongings and give them to someone else. if i had saved up some money to buy a gift from someone and then a complete stranger i invited into my house went and robbed it to give to someone else i'd be pretty pissed. i just couldn't sympathise with the friend at all. he had good intentions but why didn't he think to ask the family if they would donate their presents to the homeless instead of just robbing them? i hope i don't sound like a greedy bastard, i just hate the way he went about tricking them

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[–] JOW2471 10 years ago

Sounds stupid to me. Yeah man Christmas eve and nobody better go take my presents.

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[–] furienna 9 years ago

Oh yeah! I liked this show, but that episode was just awful. My sister and I watched it many years ago now, but I can still remember how angry we both became. Even if the man who did this had the best of selfless intentions, going off stealing all of his host family's Christmas presents was not cool...

I have the same hard feelings for "Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton", an old Christmas special from 1975, that many people here in Sweden still consider a sacred staple on the TV schedule every Christmas Eve. I wonder if it would have become less revered today if the man behind it, Tage Danielsson, hadn't died from skin cancer at the mere age of 57 years old. And we all know that if a celebrity somehow dies too soon, he/she will often become more iconic than if he/she had lived longer... But I don't care how much people in general adore this left-wing boloney, because I can only hate it. It is about how a 14-year-old boy from a rich family steals people's Christmas gifts, even the ones for his own family, from the post office where he has a part-time job, so he can play Robin Hood with other people's property and give them to the poor folks. And yep, we are supposed to see this kid as some kind of sweet saintly Christmas hero! Excuse me while I almost puke at the mere thought of this story...

Thinking about this, I wonder if the writer behind the "Two of a kind" episode actually copied this Swedish special (and it seems to exist in two (!) English versions, so I guess that it is possible that an American perhaps watched it at some point), or if two people in the world managed to come up with (almost) the same disgusting storyline.

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[–] DanTUtilize (274) 2 years ago

Yes I think it sends a bad message that you should invite strangers to your house and if you are said stranger it's alright to steal your host Christmas family's presents without asking. It doesn't matter where it's going to, that is theft and should be charged in the full extent of the law.

Fuck that episode and that motherfucker too.